Lufthansa Alters Services Configuration for Winter Schedule

As they head into their winter schedules (Oct. 27 to March 29), Lufthansa and subsidiary Germanwings will expand their capacity by 1.1 percent thanks to the deployment of larger aircraft. They also are offering more destinations. Lufthansa is serving 199 destinations on its own, while Germanwings is featuring 64 destinations in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

This winter Lufthansa and Germanwings will fly a weekly total of 12,162 flights. In total, the Lufthansa Group (Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Germanwings and SWISS) will be serving a total of 274 destinations in 106 countries on four continents besides offering numerous codeshares.

An Airbus A380 and a Boeing 747-8 will be deployed on further connections in the winter flight schedules. The A380 has been flying five times a week from Frankfurt to Shanghai since the end of September. Also since September, the B747-8 has been operating on the Frankfurt–Mexico City route and will also commence flights from Frankfurt to Chicago when the winter timetable comes into force.

Service also will be increased to daily flights on connections from Frankfurt to Philadelphia and to Dammam in Saudi Arabia in order to accommodate growing demand. Lufthansa will continue to fly non-stop this winter from Munich to Cape Town. A special connection (Jan. 24 to March 17) has been set up to fly fans and athletes non-stop to the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Sochi.

Many of Lufthansa’s point-to-point flights in Europe will be transferred to Germanwings in the new winter timetable. Germanwings will take over all Lufthansa connections in Europe that are not operated through the Frankfurt and Munich hubs. Germanwings will now fly on 23 of the previous destinations previously served by Lufthansa out of Hamburg and Berlin.

In the coming months, the following routes from Hamburg will be taken over by Germanwings: Amsterdam, Birmingham, Budapest, Geneva, London, Madrid, Milan, Manchester, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm and Zurich. The transfer of flights from Hamburg will be completed by the end of March. Passengers on flights from Berlin can fly with Germanwings to Birmingham, Bologna, Bucharest, Geneva, Helsinki, London, Málaga, Nuremberg, Rome, Milan and Vienna.

The transfer of all direct services will be completed in summer 2014. Lufthansa’s direct flights from Dusseldorf will be taken over by Germanwings as planned next summer. Once the transfer has taken place, Lufthansa passengers, who have already booked flights, will automatically be re-booked on Germanwings. Meanwhile, Lufthansa is discontinuing its connections to Libreville/Gabon and Pointe Noire/Republic of Congo at the turn of the year 2013-14.

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